Exalted Is The Tabletop RPG Most In Need Of A Video Game Adaptation

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Tabletop RPG Exalted is still in need of a video game adaptation. The relationship between tabletop roleplaying games and video games is nearly as old as either hobby. Amateur adaptations of Dungeons & Dragons, the first modern tabletop RPG, were created as early as the mid-1970s, and tabletop to video game adaptations continue through recent releases like Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and the ongoing playtest of Baldur’s Gate 3. Some RPGs are more suited to the video game format than others, and the tabletop RPG most in need of a video game adaptation is Exalted, originally from White Wolf publishing. Exalted proudly displayed its inspirations from video games and anime. Its flashy, larger-than-life combat system, including “Charms” which essentially amounted to video game special moves, practically begged for a video game to showcase them to their fullest. More than 20 years have passed since Exalted’s original 2001 first edition release, and the absence of a video game continues to be a major missed opportunity.

Exalted was a significant shift for White Wolf, a publisher best known for its series of World of Darkness modern-day horror RPGs, which include Vampire: the Masquerade and later Vampire: the Requiemin its revised World of Darkness. The company was known for its trademark Storyteller System, a dice-pool-based system that put as much emphasis on mental and social challenges as it did combat. White Wolf’s games, appropriately, prioritized drama and storytelling over battle and loot. Earlier games had pushed the Storyteller System beyond the horror genre, like the science-fiction game Aeon and the superhero genre RPG Aberrant. Exalted was a bigger tonal departure, abandoning the “real world with fantastic